#Typinator vs textexpander 2016 mac#

It’s unfortunate that Smile’s desire to expand into the business market with snippet sharing got tangled up with the needs of individual customers. (Team subscription pricing for TextExpander 6 remains the same at $7.96 per user per month, billed annually, which works out to Plus, for those who purchased TextExpander after 1 December 2015, the first three months of the Life Hacker plan are free. Upgrading customers who want to test-drive the new version can pay $2.08 per month before committing to the $20-per-year plan. Even more significant, customers with current licenses for any previous version of TextExpander now receive a 50 percent lifetime discount, dropping the subscription price to $20 per year for as long as the subscription is renewed.

The Life Hacker subscription plan for individuals using TextExpander 6 is now priced at $40 per year, down from $47.52.

#Typinator vs textexpander 2016 mac#

The Mac version of TextExpander costs $44.95 and TextExpander touch 3 + Custom Keyboard for iOS is $4.99 on the App Store. We’ll be listening to our customers’ needs, and plan to bring in new features where they most benefit, as well as continue development to ensure OS compatibility.” So yes, the standalone versions will continue to evolve in the future. Although there was some initial confusion as to whether or not this meant that these apps would receive ongoing development, Smile founder Greg Scown told me, “It’s a very feature rich product. The company will continue to sell and support the standalone versions of TextExpander 5 for the Mac and TextExpander 3 for iPhone & iPad.

Smile is now walking back some of those decisions in two major ways:

(Full disclosure: Smile is a longtime TidBITS sponsor.) Smile took flak from people who dislike subscription software, individuals who had no use for snippet sharing, folks who try to avoid cloud-based software, and those who felt the total price was too high. #1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browserįor the last week, the main controversy in the Apple world has been Smile’s decision to add cloud-based snippet sharing to their TextExpander text-expansion utility and switch to a subscription model (“ TextExpander 6 Adds Teams and Subscription Billing,” 6 April 2016).And it doesn't limit you to just text expansion either so there's that. But purely for text expansion reasons, Text Blaze is a far better alternative. I use Alfred for plenty of shortcuts and tasks with textexpander thrown in. I made a PHP shell script that outputs the current date, and Typinator. #1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials It is between Text Blaze and Alfred for me. The current (July 2 2016) version of TextExpander here and on MacUpdate desktop.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.